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Executive Directors and Alternates and their Voting Power - June 2007

     IBRDIDA
Executive
Director
AlternateCasting votes ofTotal
votes
% of
total
Total
votes
% of
total

Appointed      
E. Whitney Debevoise(vacant)United States265,21916.412,158,30213.01
Makoto HosomiaMasato KandaJapan127,2507.871,676,53010.10
Eckhard DeutscherRuediger Von KleistGermany72,6494.491,076,5496.69
Alex GibbsCaroline SergeantUnited Kingdom69,6474.31858,0615.17
Pierre DuquesneAlexis KohlerFrance69,6474.31687,3984.14

Elected      
Gino Alzetta
(Belgium)
Melih Nemli
(Turkey)
Austria, Belarus,* Belgium, Czech Republic, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Luxembourg, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Turkey77,6694.81770,8164.65
Jorge Familiar
(Mexico)
Jose Alejandro Rojas Ramirez
(República Bolivariana de Venezuela)
Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Spain, Venezuela (República Bolivariana de)*72,7864.50367,5702.22
Herman Wijffels
(Netherlands)
Claudiu Doltu
(Romania)
Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria,* Croatia, Cyprus, Georgia, Israel, Macedonia (former Yugoslav Republic of), Moldova, Netherlands, Romania,* Ukraine72,2084.47646,3593.90
Samy Watson
(Canada)
Ishmael Lightbourne
(The Bahamas)
Antigua and Barbuda,* The Bahamas,* Barbados, Belize, Canada, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Ireland, Jamaica,* St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines62,2173.85725,9574.38
Rogerio Studart
(Brazil)
Jorge Humberto Botero
(Colombia)
Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Panama, Philippines, Trinidad and Tobago57,4623.56500,9093.02
Giovanni Majnoni
(Italy)
Nuno Mota Pinto
(Portugal)
Albania, Greece, Italy, Malta,* Portugal, San Marino,* Timor-Leste56,7053.51564,5493.40
Joong-Kyung Choib
(Republic of Korea)
Terry O'Brien
(Australia)
Australia, Cambodia, Kiribati, Korea (Republic of), Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Federated States of), Mongolia, New Zealand, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu55,8003.45537,6693.24
Dhanendra Kumar
(India)
Zakir Ahmed Khan
(Bangladesh)
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Sri Lanka54,9453.40695,6904.19
Mathias Sinamenye
(Burundi)
Mulu Ketsela
(Ethiopia)
Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Eritrea, Ethiopia, The Gambia, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia,* Nigeria, Seychelles,* Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe54,3473.36759,5974.58
Svein Aass
(Norway)
Pauli Kariniemi
(Finland)
Denmark, Estonia,* Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania,* Norway, Sweden54,0393.34856,3885.16
Shuja Shah
(Pakistan)
Sid Ahmed Dib
(Algeria)
Afghanistan, Algeria, Ghana, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Morocco, Pakistan, Tunisia51,5443.19365,6232.20
Michel Mordasini
(Switzerland)
Jakub Karnowski
(Poland)
Azerbaijan, Kyrgyz Republic, Poland, Serbia, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan,* Uzbekistan49,1923.04639,7153.86
Merza H. Hasan
(Kuwait)
Mohamed Kamel Amr
(Arab Republic of Egypt)
Bahrain,* Egypt (Arab Republic of), Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Maldives, Oman, Qatar,* Syrian Arab Republic, United Arab Emirates, Yemen (Republic of)47,0422.91375,3162.26
Zou Jiayi
(China)
Yang Jinlin
(China)
China45,0492.79332,4002.00
Abdulrahman M. Almofadhi
(Saudi Arabia)
Abdulhamid Alkhalifa
(Saudi Arabia)
Saudi Arabia45,0452.79556,6433.35
Alexey G. Kvasov
(Russian Federation)
Eugene Miagkov
(Russian Federation)
Russian Federation45,0452.7951,3610.31
Mat Aron Deraman
(Malaysia)
Chularat Suteethorn
(Thailand)
Brunei Darussalam,* Fiji, Indonesia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Singapore, Thailand, Tonga, Vietnam41,0962.54469,7192.83
Felix Alberto Camarasa
(Argentina)
Francisco Bernasconi
(Chile)
Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay*37,4992.32267,7611.61
Louis Philippe Ong Seng
(Mauritius)
Agapito Mendes Dias
(São Tomé and Principe)
Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo (Democratic Republic of), Congo (Republic of), Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Niger, Rwanda, São Tomé and Principe, Senegal, Togo32,2522.00651,4453.93

In addition to the Executive Directors and alternates shown in the foregoing list, the following also served after November 1, 2006:

Executive DirectorEnd of period of serviceAlternate DirectorEnd of period of service

Note: Eritrea (843 votes in IBRD and 31,162 votes in IDA), Somalia (802 votes in IBRD and 10,506 votes in IDA), and Suriname (662 votes in IBRD) did not participate in the 2006 regular election of Executive Directors. Montenegro (938 votes in IBRD and 44,271 votes in IDA) became a member after that election. * = Member of IBRD only.
a. Toru Shikibu (Japan) appointed effective July 24, 2007.
b.To be succeeded by James Hagan (Australia) effective August 1, 2007.
Otaviano Canuto
(Brazil)
May 31, 2007Maria Ines Agudelo
(Colombia)
February 28, 2007
Clay Lowery
(United States)
April 6, 2007Nursiah Arshad
(Malaysia)
May 14, 2007
Tom Scholar
(United Kingdom)
June 27, 2007Jennifer Dorn
(United States)
February 16, 2007
Walter Hermann
(Germany)
January 26, 2007

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